PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown’s governing body, the Corporation of
Brown University, elected three term trustees and five alumni/ae trustees at its
Commencement Weekend meeting May 26, 2001. The new trustees will be sworn in at
the next regular meeting of the Corporation in October and will serve six-year
terms, from 2001 to 2007.

The Corporation is composed of a 12-member Board of Fellows and a 42-member
Board of Trustees, all elected by the Corporation. Fourteen members of the Board
of Trustees are alumni/ae trustees, nominated by the Brown Alumni Association
and elected to office by the Corporation.

The Corporation is responsible for establishing broad policies for the
operation of the University, for selecting a president to carry out those
policies, for appointing administrative officers and faculty members, for
managing the funds and holding the real estate of the University. In addition to
attending three regular meetings of the Brown Corporation (October, February and
May), members normally serve on one or more standing committees of the
Corporation and may be asked to serve on ad hoc boards or committees established
from time to time.

Craig M. Cogut, of Cos Cob, Conn., Class of 1975, will serve as a term
trustee. Cogut is a senior partner of Pegasus Investors, a private equity firm
he co-founded in 1996, which manages more than $800 million of institutional
capital. Last year, the firm announced the formation of paperloop.com, the
premier online information and business exchange for the global paper, printing
and converting industries. Cogut is a former director of Salant Corporation,
Gillette Holdings Inc., and Envirotest Systems Corporation. He serves on the
board of directors of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which works to
hold governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the International Bill
of Human Rights, and he has served on the board of directors of Vail Resorts
since 1992. He is president of the Craig & Deborah Cogut Foundation and
established a Judaic studies fund at Brown.

Paul R. Dupee, of Los Angeles, Calif., Class of 1965, will serve as a
term trustee. Dupee is chairman of the board and chief executive office of
Maxicare Health Plans Inc., a holding company that owns and operates HMO
subsidiaries in California and Indiana, and also owns and operates Maxicare Life
and Health Insurance Company. Dupee has served on the boards of Christie’s
and the Bridgehampton (N.Y.) Chamber Music Festival. His contributions to the
Brown Library established the Dupee Collection on Fireworks, the Dupee Mexican
History Collection, and the Dupee Digital Reference Collections. He is president
of the Paul R. Dupee Jr. Foundation and has established a professorship of
social science and national scholarship at Brown.

Jeffrey W. Greenberg, of New York City, Class of 1973, will serve as a
term trustee. Greenberg is chairman, president and chief executive officer of
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the world’s largest insurance broker, with
annual revenues exceeding $10 billion. He is a trustee of the Spence School
(N.Y.) and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He formerly served on the board of
directors for such organizations as the Children’s Oncology Society of New
York, the Ronald McDonald House of NYC and the National Commission Against Drunk
Drivers. He has been a member of the Board of Visitors of Georgetown University
Law School.

Bernicestine McLeod Bailey, of Westport, Conn., Class of 1968, will
serve as an alumnae trustee. Bailey is president of McLeod Associates Inc., an
information technology consulting firm that specializes in workgroup, e-business
systems development and PC/Server sales. For 12 years prior to forming McLeod
Associates in 1981, she was a systems engineer at IBM. Active throughout her
life in professional and community organizations, Bailey has served most
recently as president of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Independent
Computer Consultants Association and president of the Stamford-Norwalk Chapter
of Jack and Jill of America Inc. She has also co-founded an organization to
assist with identifying, recruiting, preparing and retaining minority teachers.
She was an initial recipient of the Brown University Alumni Service Award.

John Seely Brown, of Palo Alto, Calif., Class of 1962, will serve as
an alumni trustee. Brown is vice president and chief scientist of Xerox
Corporation, which he joined in 1978 as a research scientist. Until recently,
Brown was director of Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),
overseeing the research that brought such innovations as the mouse, the laser
printer and the Ethernet network. Brown has published numerous articles in
scientific journals and has authored books including The Social Life of
Information, published in February 2000. His article “Research that
Reinvents the Corporation” won the 1991 McKinsey Award from the Harvard
Business Review, an award that selects outstanding articles that are likely
to have a major influence on the actions of senior managers worldwide. Brown is
on the Board of Directors of Corning Inc., General Instruments Corp., and Varian
Associates Inc., a Silicon Valley high-technology company. He was named by the
Brown Alumni Magazine as one of the hundred distinguished alumni of the
past century.

Kenneth R. Fitzsimmons Jr., of Piedmont, Calif., Class of 1968, will
serve as alumni trustee. He is a founding partner, member of the executive
committee, managing director and director of capital markets at BancBoston
Robertson Stephens, an international investment banking firm specializing in
growth companies. Robertson Stephens & Company was acquired in 1998 by
BankBoston to become BancBoston Robertson Stephens, a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Fitzsimmons is a member of the Board of Directors and an advisor to the Brown
University Sports Foundation (BUSF). He has been a Brown Alumni Schools
Committee (BASC) member since 1994. In 1992, he served a leadership gifts vice
chair, and from 1990-1992, he was a member of the Brown Annual Fund Executive
Committee (BAFEC).

Laura Geller, of Los Angeles, Calif., Class of 1971, will serve as an
alumnae trustee. Senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, she is the
first woman to achieve that role in a major metropolitan synagogue. She served
14 years as the rabbi at the University of Southern California, and then as
director of the American Jewish Congress (Southwest Region), a civil rights
organization. A recipient of the ACLU (Southern California) Award for Fostering
Racial and Cultural Harmony, Geller served on the Los Angeles Human Relations
Commission of Beverly Hills. She was named by the Brown Alumni Magazine
as one of the hundred distinguished alumni of the past century. Geller gave the
baccalaureate address at Brown in 1985.

Javette Pickney Laremont, of Stamford, Conn., Class of 1980, will
serve as an alumnae trustee. Laremont is a marketing professional with more than
20 years of experience in technology solutions, sales and marketing. She has
worked as a consultant to large corporations and small businesses, using
technology as a strategic business tool. Laremont also worked for IBM
Corporation for more than 13 years. Since she graduated from Brown, Laremont has
held various leadership positions in alumni activities and received an award for
distinguished alumni service. She is the president of the Brown Alumni
Association, director of the Brown Club of Fairfield County and a member of
Pembroke Leadership Council. Laremont also helped to establish the active Brown
multicultural alumni networks.